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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Markus Scherer [mailto:markus.icu@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> July 28, 2013 4:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Peter Constable<br>
<b>Cc:</b> ietf-languages@iana.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Wikipedia tagging<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Peter Constable <<a href="mailto:petercon@microsoft.com" target="_blank">petercon@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Can anyone explain why it is that Wikipedia is tagging Simplified Chinese content as simply “zh”?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">That’s not good practice and will lead to users encountering buggy behaviour (e.g., content being displayed using the wrong fonts).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think it is very common that developers assume that "zh" defaults to "zh-Hans-CN", just like they assume that "en" defaults to "en-Latn-US", "de" to "de-Latn-DE", etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">markus<o:p></o:p></p>
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